[ros-users] SwisTrack for ROS

[Antons Rebguns]

Gonçalo,

I did work with Swistrack a while ago and added that wrapper package
to our repository. I can definitely include your changes in our
repository if you send a patch to me.

Thanks,
Anton

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM,  <goncabrita at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently used swistrack on a project, since everything here runs on ROS I
> had to use swistrack in ROS.
>
> Thanks to ROS answers I found out that someone at the University of Arizona
> had already ported siwstrack to ROS:
>
> $roslocate info swistrack
> - svn:
>     local-name: swistrack
>     uri:
> http://ua-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/arrg/ua_experimental/swistrack
>
> I did not manage to compile that on ROS Fuerte, so I played around with it
> till it finally worked. Then I added our IP camera at the lab to the list of
> input devices, created a _msgs pkg for the output and I created a node for
> publishing the tf of the odometry of each robot to the map frame (similar to
> what amcl does).
>
> I have a working copy on my computer and I'm guessing this might be useful
> to someone out there, so I'm wondering if the guys at the UA repository want
> to host this, or if I should put it online on our repository.
>
> I currently have a stack I called swistrackros, inside it has swistrack
> (which I downloaded from UA and updated), swistrack_msgs and
> swistrack_broadcaster.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gonçalo Cabrita
>
>
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